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Also Free Wieners. Those who could not get into the Americana (booked solid through January) could try "last year's hotel," the $8,000,000, 350-room Eden Roc, or the $14 million, 565-room Fontainebleau with its $200-a-day suites and two swimming pools which dates all the way back to 1954. Even the "old hotels" like the Casablanca (built in 1951) and the Sherry Frontenac (1948), and even the 30-year-old Roney Plaza of J. Myer Schine,* whose room prices are right up in the top $32-to-$42-a-day bracket, were packing them...
...succeeding days, Eden coped doggedly with a barrage of harassing questions from the Opposition, a lonely man flanked by a depressed and worried party. Like hounds worrying a fox, Laborites pressed their charge that there had been collusion between Britain. France and Israel in the attack on Suez...
...Eden parried and dodged, then said flatly, thumping the dispatch box angrily: "To say that Her Majesty's government was engaged in some dishonorable activity is completely untrue, and I must emphatically deny it." Liberal Leader Joseph Grimond, still not satisfied, demanded to know whether the government could categorically deny that it had had information that Israel was going to attack Egypt. The House rang with cries of "Answer, answer." Finally Eden got to his feet. "There was not foreknowledge that Israel would attack Egypt-there was not," he insisted. "But there was something else. There was-we knew...
...week long Eden assured his fellow Tories that the country backed him, insisted that he would have no misgivings about winning a general election even if it came tomorrow, but was determined not to call an election for two years. His optimistic thesis was jarred by a by-election to fill the seat of ex-Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anthony Nutting, who had resigned in protest over Eden's Suez policies. Melton Mowbray is in the heart of Toryland, a section of fox-hunting squires and prosperous Leicestershire farmers. In the 1955 election, Nutting, who lived...
...York. Jeanne looked glum, kept mum. A little less reticent was one of her most dashing recent escorts, handsome Investment Scion Anthony Nutting, 36, separated from his wife (last June) and from his No. 2 spot in Britain's Foreign Office (last month) in protest against Anthony Eden's ill-starred Suez adventure. About to leave London at week's end for the U.S., where he will author six articles on the world scene for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, Tony Nutting was asked if he plans to drop in on the ex-Mrs. Vanderbilt. Replied...